ARCH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Huaca Prieta, Norte Chico Civilization, Andean Civilizations
27 Mar 2020
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Andean civilisations: desert coastal plain (peru) & andes mountains (altiplano, rich ocean resources, anchovies, seaweed. Andean social complexity: concentrated coastal populations, irrigation in river valleys, coast-highland trade: seaweed and agricultural products, rise of chiefdoms and states, culminating in the inka empire. Preceramic period: 3000 1800 bc, coastal emphasis on ocean resources, artefacts relate to marine resource exploitation. Important sites: caral most ancient city in the americas (ca. C a r a l the main site of the supe valley civilization ) (ca. The caral civilization is the earliest discovered civilization of the new world, located as several towns on the coast of peru. ca. 1000 years older than the olmec, the oldest civilization in mesoamerica. ca. 2000 younger than the sumerian civilization (mesopotamia): aspero, a trading partner of caral primarily maritime because of its close proximity to the pacific ocean. "maritime foundations of andean culture" theory - the initial development of ancient.
